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Pa Education Association

Advancing excellence in pa education through leadership, scholarship, equity, and inclusion.

$170k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$24k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0188% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.

Education$753kCommunity Improvement$17kOther$103k
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 6 grants below total $84,295 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $169,963 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $85,668 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $17k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $67k
$16,204
Median grant
4
States reached
$30M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY$23,896
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE$16,667
WAKE FOREST UNI HEALTH SCIENCES$16,204
SETON HALL UNIVERSITY$10,475
DUKE UNIVERSITY$9,637
MIDWESTERN UNIVERSITY$7,416
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 75% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%MIDWESTERN UNIVERSITY: $15k → 11%NORTHEN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY: $24k → 16%NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $7k → 16%AUGSBURG UNIVERSITY: $25k → 11%BETHEL UNIVERSITY: $25k → 14%DREXEL UNIVERSITY: $14k → 22%CHARLES R DREW UNIVERSITY OF: $11k → 14%UT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER: $50k → 14%GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $50k → 14%WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY: $7k → 21%OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE: $13k → 12%DUKE UNIVERSITY: $10k → 11%WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY: $12k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF UTAH: $14k → 8%MERCER UNIVERSITY: $7k → 23%UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $7k → 9%SETON HALL UNIVERSITY: $10k → 16%PA FOUNDATION: $17k → 9%SHENANDOAH UNIVERSITY: $49k → 16%EASTERN VIRGINIA MEDICAL SCHOOL: $11k → 19%UNIVERSITY OF MD BALTIMORE: $17k → 19%MIDWESTERN UNIVERSITY: $7k → 11%NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY: $24k → 16%AUGSBURG UNIVERSITY: $25k → 11%BETHEL UNIVERSITY: $25k → 14%DREXEL UNIVERSITY: $7k → 22%UT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER: $17k → 14%GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $10k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT MERCY: $14k → 21%DUKE UNIVERSITY: $19k → 11%SETON HALL: $7k → 16%SHENANDOAH UNIVERSITY: $24k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE: $17k → 19%AUGSBURG UNIVERSITY: $25k → 11%UT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER: $17k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF MD BALTIMORE: $17k → 19%UT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER: $8k → 14%UT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER: $5k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

WA
MN
MI
MA
OR
PA
NJ
CT
CA
UT
VA
MD
AZ
NC
DC
GA
TX

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$654k · 11 repeat orgs$166k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +30% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.

11 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
11

Total granted

$654k
$126k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+10%

Still filing today

100%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $41k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • DUKE UNIVERSITY
    5× · 2018–2025 · $159k · revenue +41%
  • SM
    SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL FOUNDATION
    5× · 2017–2023 · $97k · revenue +163%
  • AU
    AUGSBURG UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2018–2020 · $75k · revenue +30%

Funded once

  • NA
    NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2019 · $24k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF UTAH
    one grant, 2019 · $14k
  • UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT MERCY
    one grant, 2022 · $14k · revenue +1%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
2
Washington University

The washington university is a co-educational, nondenominational university with a long and distinguished history of teaching, research and (cont'd on schedule o)

Education
3
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
4
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
5
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
6
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania

The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…

Education
7
St Marys University of Minnesota

Enriched by the lasallian catholic heritage, saint mary's university of minnesota awakens, nurtures, and empowers learners to ethical lives of service and leadership.

Education
8
The Catholic University of America

As the national university of the catholic church in the united states, founded and sponsored by the bishops of the country with the approval of the holy see, the catholic university of america is committed to being a comprehensive…

Education
9
Case Western Reserve University

Case Western Reserve University is an independent, research-oriented university with broadly based strengths in health, including medicine, nursing and dentistry; in engineering; in the arts and sciences; and in law, management and social…

Education
10
A T Still University of Health Sciences

A.T. Still University of Health Sciences serves as a learning-centered university dedicated to preparing highly competent professionals through innovative academic programs. The University is committed to continuing its osteopathic…

Education
11
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
12
Endicott College

Endicott college offers students a vibrant academic environment that remains true to its founding principle of integrating professional and liberal arts with experiential learning. for more information see schedule o.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northeastern University and the most unlike its peers is Wake Forest University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 61 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%0%10–20yr16%29%20–35yr13%14%35–55yr16%57%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%0%10–20yr16%19%20–35yr13%5%35–55yr16%77%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/26
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,539

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

20 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 20 of the 26 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/20
Grantees still filing
18/20
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

DUKE UNIVERSITY — $158,949 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITYSOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL FOUNDATION — $96,987 · EducationSOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL FOUNDATIONAUGSBURG UNIVERSITY — $75,000 · EducationAUGSBURG UNIVERSITYSHENANDOAH UNIVERSITY — $72,818 · EducationSHENANDOAH UNIVERSITYThe George Washington University — $60,334 · EducationThe George Washington UniversityBETHEL UNIVERSITY — $50,000 · EducationBETHEL UNIVERSITYWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES — $44,948 · EducationWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCESYale University — $35,432 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE FOUNDATION INC — $33,334 · Education+9 more — $124,719 · Education+9 moreNORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY — $24,200 · OtherNORTHERN ARIZ…SETON HALL UNIVERSITY — $17,475 · OtherSETON HALL UN…UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK — $16,667 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF…UNIVERSITY OF UTAH — $14,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF…OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY — $13,000 · OtherOREGON HEALTH…EASTERN VIRGINIA MEDICAL SCHOOL — $10,500 · OtherEASTERN VIRGI…WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY — $6,996 · OtherWAYNE STATE U…PHYSICIAN ASSOCIATE FOUNDATION OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF PHYSICIAN ASSOCIATES — $16,500 · Community Improvement
Education$752,521Other$102,838Community Improvement$16,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY — $158,949 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL FOUNDATION — $96,987 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetAUGSBURG UNIVERSITY — $75,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSHENANDOAH UNIVERSITY — $72,818 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe George Washington University — $60,334 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBETHEL UNIVERSITY — $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES — $44,948 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetYale University — $35,432 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE FOUNDATION INC — $33,334 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $23,896 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMidwestern University — $22,248 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDREXEL UNIVERSITY — $21,621 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSETON HALL UNIVERSITY — $17,475 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPHYSICIAN ASSOCIATE FOUNDATION OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF PHYSICIAN ASSOCIATES — $16,500 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF DETROIT MERCY — $13,981 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY — $11,641 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHARLES R DREW UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND SCIENCE — $10,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CORPORATION OF MERCER UNIVERSITY — $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY — $6,875 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.

Fidelity Investments …
Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA5.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Pa Education Association funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Yale University — 9% of income from government
  • Northeastern University — 4% of income from government
  • Seton Hall University — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 26 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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